Venezuelan and Colombian media try to create distorted image of the country

The Minister of People's Power for Interior Relations and Justice, Ramon Rodriguez Chacín, denounced the attempt, on behalf of some Colombian media supported by Venezuelan's, of creating a terror as well as distorted image of the country abroad, due to the way they informed the armed robbery with hostages at the Banco Provincial entity of Altagracia de Orituco population in Guarico state.

“Colombian and Venezuelan media are becoming alliances to create images of terror; I think they suffered a great setback when we proved the quality of our police corp. In little places of the world, in history, a situation like this has been solved without deaths,” recalled Minister Chaacín during a press conference in order to give the details of the release of 52 hostages and the capture of the bank thieves.

He specified that the state of anguish and despair of the hostages' friends and relatives was exaggerated by some media “in which they show sensationalism and create terror and panic among our population.”

The minister also indicated that “the media of the Venezuelan oligarchy” joint to the “Colombian oligarchy” are working in parallel to create terror images of the country.

He expressed that the journal El Tiempo, from Colombia, is in tune with the Venezuelan journal El Nacional, and that television stations like RCN, CNN and Globovision “perform in parallel to create terror and a distorted image of Venezuela abroad.”

Rodriguez Chacín indicated that these media took advantage of the fact that captors and hostages initially could do to phone calls.

He detailed that captors and hostages made phone contact “with those foreign media which show a distorted image of our country abroad, supported by Venezuelan media which are always looking to show the most frightening and dreadful images to the population.”

Chacín indicated that the captors made the hostages talk to their relatives, told them their relatives would be killed and then they communicated to “these Colombian radios and issued all the threats.”